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Microsoft has quietly started rolling an AI-powered tidy-up for overflowing photo libraries: the Microsoft Photos app on Windows 11 now includes an Auto‑Categorization feature that automatically groups images into dedicated folders for Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes, and the preview is being shipped to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs. Background / Overview Microsoft has been steadily transforming the Photos app from a basic viewer into an AI-capable productivity...

We are living through a transition where artificial intelligence is no longer an optional feature on phones and PCs — it is the operating system’s new nervous system, shaping how we search, write, translate, create, and even control hardware. The four major ecosystems — Apple Intelligence, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Samsung Galaxy AI / Vision AI Companion — have each taken distinct technical and product paths. This feature compares them side‑by‑side, verifies key technical claims...

Perplexity’s move to open its search stack to developers marks the clearest bid yet by a next‑generation “answer engine” to contest Google’s long‑standing dominance over web discovery, and it comes with a stack of technical, commercial, and legal implications that developers, publishers, and IT teams should evaluate carefully. Background / Overview Perplexity announced a public Search API (branded in earlier releases as “Sonar” / Search API in Perplexity documentation) that exposes its...

ChatGPT Pulse arrives as a quiet — and potentially habit-changing — background assistant that “does research while you sleep,” surfacing personalized updates, meeting prep, reminders, and follow‑ups each morning based on your chats, feedback, and the apps you choose to connect to ChatGPT. Background OpenAI’s new Pulse feature is a deliberate shift from on‑demand chat replies toward asynchronous, proactive assistance: instead of waiting for a query, Pulse continuously synthesizes available...

Microsoft has set a hard calendar for Windows 10’s twilight: routine security updates, quality patches and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 SKUs end on October 14, 2025, forcing households, small businesses and large enterprises to choose between upgrading to Windows 11, enrolling eligible devices in Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or accepting the growing risk of running an unsupported operating system. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle...

Microsoft’s decision to cease and disable a set of Azure cloud and AI services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense follows an urgent internal review that found preliminary evidence supporting investigative reporting that alleged the Israeli military stored and analysed large volumes of Palestinian phone-call data on Microsoft infrastructure — a finding that has profound implications for cloud governance, human-rights risk management, and the limits of corporate due diligence...

I switched my primary launcher on Windows from Flow Launcher to the Raycast Windows beta and, within hours, it changed how I interact with everyday text, emoji and file searches—what felt like a small tweak to my OS workflow turned into a clear productivity uplift that’s worth a close look. Background Raycast began life as a macOS-first, keyboard‑centric launcher and workflow hub, then grew into a feature-rich platform with an extensions marketplace and paid tiers that bundle cloud sync and...

Microsoft is rolling a quietly useful piece of AI into the Windows 11 Photos app: an automatic, on-device system that scans your local image library and groups document-like pictures into four focused categories — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — aiming to make those one-off, important photos far easier to find. Background / Overview Microsoft announced the Auto‑Categorization feature for the Microsoft Photos app in a Windows Insider blog post and is previewing it to...

Microsoft’s new 13-inch Surface Laptop tries to boil the Surface formula down to its essentials: an ultra-light, attractively finished clamshell powered by Qualcomm’s Arm silicon, long battery life, and a thin, bright PixelSense touchscreen — all tuned to showcase Microsoft’s Copilot+ on-device AI. The result is a device that, on paper, looks like the company’s answer to the MacBook Air: svelte metal chassis, good battery claims, and a coherent software story. A recent hands-on New Zealand...

Asus and Microsoft have opened pre-orders for two new Xbox-branded ROG handhelds — the ROG Xbox Ally (base) and the higher‑end ROG Xbox Ally X — with an official on‑shelf launch date set for October 16, 2025 and U.S. estimated retail prices at roughly $599.99 for the Ally and $999.99 for the Ally X. These devices marry ASUS’ ROG handheld engineering with an Xbox‑centered Windows 11 experience, and they mark Microsoft’s biggest push yet to put a full Windows‑powered, Xbox‑branded portable...

Google Cloud has publicly reminded regulators that it filed a formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices one year ago — and warns that little has changed while competitors, customers and regulators continue to grapple with pricing, portability and potential vendor lock‑in. Background / Overview Google’s renewed public appeal centers on a single set of allegations: Microsoft’s licensing rules for core server and productivity software (notably Windows Server, SQL...

Cru Uncorked’s playful "Sommelier Showdown" that pitted three human sommeliers against Microsoft Copilot produced a narrow victory for the humans — but the experiment delivered a far richer takeaway: AI can reliably suggest classical, crowd-friendly pairings, yet it still leans on human data, inventory grounding and interaction to reach restaurant-ready usefulness. Background / Overview Cru Uncorked is a fine‑dining restaurant housed in a countryside chateau just outside Cleveland that...

Microsoft’s newest server release is already generating painful operational lessons: administrators who add a Windows Server 2025 domain controller into a mixed Active Directory environment containing older DCs can trigger widespread authentication breakage — machine account password rotations fail, domain logons stall, and remediation can require awkward, high‑risk edits or a full DC upgrade to regain stability. The problem surfaced in community reports and a German technical blog post...

The Lakeville Park Commission’s unanimous vote to spend roughly $60.68 to extend support for a single Windows 10 computer at ClearPond Park crystallizes a small but telling moment where municipal operations meet the end of a major software lifecycle—and where pragmatic, cost-driven decisions collide with cyber risk and procurement complexity. The September 25, 2025 meeting record shows the commission chose the lowest‑friction path to keep the park’s systems running for another year, while...

Millions of PCs across India are now racing against a hard calendar: Microsoft will stop issuing routine security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, a change that turns otherwise functional machines into progressively riskier targets and forces a squeeze between costly hardware refreshes, paid extended support, or risky continued use. Microsoft’s official lifecycle notices make the date unambiguous, and the company has published exact options for consumers and enterprises—free...

Google quietly shipped a small Windows app that, in one practical move, exposes how rough Microsoft’s built‑in search and launcher experience still is — and why third‑party solutions continue to outshine first‑party features on modern Windows desktops. Background / Overview In mid‑September, Google released an experimental "Google app for Windows" through its Search Labs program. The app installs like a lightweight utility, registers a global hotkey (Alt + Space by default), and surfaces a...

Law firms that once met generative AI with suspicion are now using a repeatable playbook — pilot, govern, verify, scale — to turn skeptics into internal AI champions while protecting client confidentiality and professional duty. Background / Overview The last 18–24 months forced a reckoning inside legal practices: lawyers across firm sizes began experimenting with generative AI for drafting, research, contract review, and triage, but widespread, auditable deployment remains the exception...

OpenAI has pushed ChatGPT further into the workplace this week with a trio of work‑focused updates — shared projects, an expanded slate of connectors to pull data from popular apps, and tightened security and compliance controls — moves aimed at making the assistant a persistent, team-aware workspace tool rather than a one-off chat helper. Background and overview OpenAI’s recent announcements formalize a pattern we've seen all year: gradually moving ChatGPT from a personal assistant into an...

Microsoft’s deadline is now unavoidable: Windows 10 will stop receiving regular security updates on October 14, 2025, and the immediate fallout in India—where millions of machines still run Windows 10—has forced consumers, small businesses, and large organisations into a compressed set of expensive choices: upgrade to Windows 11 where possible, buy time with paid Extended Security Updates (ESU), or continue running increasingly vulnerable systems. This forced transition has ignited demand...

Microsoft’s last-minute concession is a win for European consumers: the company will provide a one-year, no-cost extension of critical security updates for Windows 10 users inside the European Economic Area (EEA), while users elsewhere still face a mixed bag of free-but‑conditional enrollment, a modest paid option, or redeemable Microsoft Rewards points to keep receiving security fixes after the operating system’s official end-of-support date. Background: what changed and why it matters...